Tom T. Hall Quotes

If you wish to be a writer, write.

If you want to be a writer, just write. There's no magic to it.

I used to get up and write every day, even if I wasn't working on a specific thing. Now, when I have a thing I'm in the middle of, I do that, but when I'm not, time can go by when I'm not writing at all.

But the ultimate lesson is just sit down and write. That's all.

My only ritual is to just sit down and write, write every day.

A writer writes. If you want to be a writer, write.

I've lost track of the number of people who want to be writers but never actually write anything. Talking about writing, dreaming about writing, can be very fun, but it won't get a book written. You've got to write.

Ever since I was twelve, I dreamed of being an author. I just never had the fortitude to see any of my stories through to completion. I would start a book, get a few chapters in, and grow bored or get distracted by something else.

The secret to being a writer is that you have to write. It's not enough to think about writing or to study literature or plan a future life as an author. You really have to lock yourself away, alone, and get to work.

Better to write twaddle, anything, than nothing at all.

Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks in my classes with the biggest ideas and the best publicity shots ready to grace the back covers of their best-selling novels are also usually the ones who aren’t holding any paper.

The art of writing is the art of applying the seat of the pants to the seat of the chair.

Take the time to write. You can do your life's work in half an hour a day.

I have met so many people who say they've got a book in them, but they've never written a word. To be a writer - this may seem trite, I realize - you have to actually write.

The main thing about writing is... writing. Sitting your butt down in the chair and doing the work.

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

For any writers at all, read everything you can and then put your butt in the chair and write. That's all there is to it.

You have to keep writing. It's almost like practice, almost like tennis, that actually after a few days of not writing, first of all it makes you slightly depressed and uneasy, but it also affects the style when you start up again. You need to get the show on the road.

Write every day even if it is just a paragraph.

I spend most of every day writing. I like to write every day if I can. I don't start extremely early.

I had novels to write, so I wrote them.

Being a writer involves writing. You've got to commit to sitting down and writing instead of Xbox or Netflix.

I write every day.

I used to think that: whenever I heard that someone had taken 10 years to write a novel, I'd think it must be a big, serious book. Now I think, 'No - it took you one year to write, and nine years to sit around eating Kit Kats.'

With two books a year, I don't have time for writer's block.